Kolkata: The Bengal govt will introduce a legislation to protect “lawful businesses from syndicate charges” and other forms of “informal extortion”, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta announced while presenting the state budget on Monday.He described the move as a key ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: All existing direct-benefit schemes will continue under the new BJP dispensation in Bengal, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said in his opening remarks as he placed his maiden budget on Monday, and expanded the social security net further by ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: South 24 Parganas’ Falta, in the eye of a political storm, will be turned into a model block.While presenting the state budget on Monday, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said, “Falta area in South 24 Parganas is planned to ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP govt in Bengal announced in its first budget on Monday that it would fill 1 lakh vacancies across departments, with women accounting for 33% of the recruits.State finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said in his budget speech ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The newly elected BJP govt’s first Bengal budget, tabled by state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta, placed strong emphasis on infrastructure, with proposals spanning a deep sea port, minor ports, freight corridors, bridges and Ro-Ro services.Citing the low draft ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta high court on Monday verbally directed no coercive action till July 8 against former minister Indranil Sen in alleged Durga puja preview show controversy. The HC also directed the state to submit a progress report on the ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the state budget presented on Monday, Bengal govt has announced it will “re-examine” the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976, a move aimed at easing restrictions on developable urban land and attracting fresh investment.Presenting the budget, ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaTamluk: BJP on Monday officially took control of East Midnapore zilla parishad, ending 18 years of uninterrupted Trinamool dominance. The transition occurred smoothly despite TMC holding a numerical majority of 56 seats against BJP’s 14 out of a total ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday refused an urgent hearing sought by Trinamool Congress over the freeze on its three bank accounts. The HC directed that notice be served on all parties and called for filing of the plea ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former state sports minister Aroop Biswas faced fresh embarrassment on Monday when footballs were hurled at his SUV outside Bidhannagar South police station after he underwent nearly three hours of questioning in connection with alleged irregularities surrounding Lionel ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Controversy over the renaming of Park Circus’s Suhrawardy Avenue as Gopal Mukherjee Road intensified on Monday, with CM Suvendu Adhikari indicating that more such renamings could follow, while Trinamool, Congress and Left leaders accused the BJP govt of ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP does not endorse ‘dim-ocracy’ and it is tarnishing the state’s image, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Monday.“This is not a model to register your protest in BJP. We have condemned this and we are condemning ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In its maiden budget, Bengal’s BJP govt announced it would formulate a global capability centre (GCC) policy, after consultation with stakeholders to attract multinational corporations and high-value technology operations, as part of a broader strategy to position the ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court against a “synchronised attack on political workers and taking down offices of opposition political parties”, including instances of egg pelting, and sought an urgent hearing.Advocate Sirsanya Bandhopadhyay mentioned ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The BJP government in West Bengal on Monday presented its first full budget, announcing a wide-ranging set of measures. The budget includes a 20% point hike in dearness allowance (DA) for state employees, recruitment to one lakh government ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The BJP government in the state presented its first budget on Monday, focusing on the remaining eight months of the current financial year.Finance minister Swapan Dasgupta tabled the 2026–27 budget of the government led by chief minister Suvendu ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Signalling a major aviation and infrastructure push, the BJP government's maiden budget in West Bengal on Monday unveiled plans for a second airport serving the Kolkata region, with finance minister Swapan Dasgupta announcing that 1,000 acres would be ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city and its adjoining areas witnessed heavy rainfall on Sunday in the latter half of the morning, causing waterlogging in many parts of the city and slowing down traffic at several parts of the city, including stretches ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Parents of the RG Kar rape-murder victim have now alleged that Abesh Banerjee, a doctor and nephew of former CM Mamata Banerjee, was involved in efforts to conceal evidence after the crime. They have demanded that the CBI ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaMidnapore: A fresh FIR has been filed against TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s personal assistant Sumit Roy in connection with the cash-for-jobs scam. The FIR was registered at Debra PS on June 16.The development comes amid a police ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amid gusty winds and heavy rainfall, examinees struggled to reach their examination halls for the NEET re-test on Sunday. Out of 109,527 registered candidates, 93,878 appeared for the exam, while 15,649 skipped the re-test. Candidates appearing for the ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city experienced its rainiest monsoon day of the year on Sunday, as torrential downpours lashed the streets and brought a welcome respite from the sweltering summer heat. By Sunday evening, the city had recorded 62.1 mm of ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Slapped with a show-cause notice on Saturday for his June 12 letter to HDFC Bank seeking a debit freeze on Trinamool’s bank accounts, former state minister Aroop Biswas has responded with a three-page letter on Sunday, claiming that ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 25-year-old Bangladeshi youth with mental disabilities, Mohammad Harun Rashid, was rescued in Basirhat, nearly eight months after he went missing from his home. Members of the West Bengal Radio Club (WBRC), traced and contacted the man's family ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Suhrawardy Ave-nue in Park Circus has been renamed Gopal Mukherjee Road after ‘Gopal Pattha’, one of the key defenders of central Calcutta’s Hindu neighbourhoods during the Direct Action Day communal clashes of Aug 1946.CM Suvendu Adhikari announced the ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 12th International Day of Yoga celebrations on Red Road saw PM Narendra Modi step off the dais after delivering his speech, join the participants in performing asanas and help at least three of them correct their postures.Around ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Six persons, including a mother and her one-and-a-half-year-old child, were killed and 26 others critically injured when a Cooch Behar-bound state bus from Siliguri collided with a lorry on NH 27 at Ulladabri near Maynaguri on Sunday.The injured ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Robotic cardiac surgery is scaling up across Kolkata, with leading hospitals now offering minimally invasive procedures that promise greater precision and faster recovery for patients.Last week, BM Birla Heart Hospital launched its cardiac robotic surgery facilities. The hospital ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Land Ports Authority of India is planning to set up seven more integrated land ports along Bengal’s border with Bangladesh over the next five to six years, with the majority concentrated in the strategically vital Siliguri Corridor, ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Malda: Itahar MLA Mosharraf Hossain on Sunday became the latest senior Trinamool neta to quit the party, resigning as state president of Trinamool minority cell and declaring his alignment with Leader of Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee.Hossain said he had already ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday visited state irrigation department’s bungalow situated next to Sech Abasan in Salt Lake’s FF block. Sources said the CM was there to take stock of the building’s infrastructure and facilities and that his ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 65,000 yoga enthusiasts from all over the state, including a few from outside Bengal, converged on Red Road, a little after sunrise, to participate in the 12th International Day of Yoga celebrations led by Prime Minister Narendra ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaDwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: Four days after receiving a complaint from former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly alleging online harassment and defamation, Kolkata Police registered an FIR after finding prima facie evidence supporting his allegations.The case was registered at Thakurpukur PS on ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A doctor cannot be held liable for negligence merely because an alternative course or a better treatment method was available, Calcutta high court held while quashing a criminal case against a gynaecologist from Alipore’s Woodland Multi-Speciality Hospital.Father of ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra’s sustained jibes at rebel MPs have prompted at least two of them — Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Satabdi Roy — to indicate they will pursue legal action against her for libel.The trigger was Moitra’s ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaTwelve years old Samridhhi Pandey, a New Town resident, woke up at 4 am and rushed to his school SPK Jain Futuristic Academy for attending a yoga session. At Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (Tollygunge) and Esplanade stations, Metro railway officials ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said three indigenously built naval vessels commissioned into the Indian Navy on Sunday symbolised “India’s self-reliance resolve”, declaring that the country “does not want to remain a mere purchaser in the defence sector” and ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaSrishti LakhotiaKolkata: Delay in a divorce case caused by miscellaneous petitions filed by the wife cannot be used as a ground to seek enhanced financial relief, Calcutta High Court held on Thursday, while refusing to raise a woman’s maintenance ...
22 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal government is set to introduce two bills in the Assembly aimed at dealing strictly with public disorder, vandalism and attacks on police personnel and public servants, a senior official said on Sunday.The official said that ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Four persons were killed and 30 others were injured after a passenger bus collided with a truck on National Highway-27 in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Sunday, with preliminary findings suggesting rain-slick roads may have contributed to the ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP government in the state will present its first budget on Monday, focusing on the eight months of the current fiscal year. A key challenge before the government is to augment its own revenue generation, despite having ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Creative Museum Designers (CMD), a wholly owned Section-8 company of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the National Centre for Polar and Ocean ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaSagnik BhaduriKOLKATA: Jadavpur University (JU) has restored a rare photograph of the 1962 inter-university football team holding the Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Trophy clicked at Howrah Station and placed it at the vice-chancellor’s room at Aurobindo Bhavan.The win for the ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaJhargram: An elephant dragged a cow out of its shed and trampled it to death in Jhargram’s Pukuria village on Friday night, plunging local residents into panic and prompting a road blockade the following morning.The elephant reportedly broke down ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt on Saturday formally took possession of Petrapole police station from the Land Port Authority of India (LPAI), marking the end of prolonged administrative and political hurdles that had stalled its operational takeover since its inauguration ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Acting on CM’s orders, CID on Saturday took over the investigation into the murder of BJP functionary Prasanta Dey in Bagnan. A CID team visited Dey’s home and spoke to his wife, Soma Dey, and other family members.The ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On the eve of the 12th International Day of Yoga, last-minute preparations gathered pace across Kolkata on Saturday, with the spotlight on Red Road, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lead Sunday’s mega event. An arrangement ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As the city prepares to celebrate the International Day of Yoga on Sunday, with PM Narendra Modi leading a mass yoga event on Red Road, housing societies across Kolkata are preparing to host community yoga sessions for residents.Diamond ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaDigha: A tourist from East Burdwan died on Saturday morning after being struck by a speedboat at Digha's Sihakghola Ghat. Digha Mohana police have launched a probe and seized the speedboat.Police said the deceased, Sheikh Bapan, had travelled to ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city may receive light to moderate rain and thunderstorms on Sunday under the impact of monsoon currents and a seasonal trough that extends from Punjab to Bihar across Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. A bulletin issued by the ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Tarakeswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented to the state projects worth over Rs 1,492 crore spanning agriculture, railways, connectivity and healthcare at an event to mark Paschimbanga Divas in Tarakeswar on Saturday. Addressing his first public rally since the ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Preparations for the International Yoga Day celebrations on Red Road on Sunday, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be leading a mass yoga session, have triggered a sharp rise in demand for yoga-related products across Kolkata. This has ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In one of the largest seizures of animal export from India in recent times, Kolkata Customs has seized nearly 1,100 protected and exotic animals and aquatic species covered under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and CITES on Friday ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three men and two women — all Trinamool Congress workers, including a former councillor — were arrested in connection with the violent clash between supporters of the TMC and BJP outside Kolkata airport on Friday night that triggered ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sarika Khan alias Zerina, wife of Trinamool Congress neta Jahangir Khan, was arrested by Diamond Harbour district police on Saturday morning in connection with the attack on Falta police station recently. She was produced before the Diamond Harbour ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The future of one of south Kolkata’s most popular Durga Pujas — New Alipore Suruchi Sangha — has been thrown into uncertainty with Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) serving a legal notice on the club, directing it ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A missing person case registered 35 days ago has turned into a murder investigation after police arrested a man for allegedly killing his girlfriend and burying her body in the sand at Henry Island’s in Bakkhali.Police said victim ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The investigation into the recovery of illegal firearms in Basanti has intensified with police arresting Saukat Gayen and Jafar Sheikh after fresh disclosures by arrested accused Ramzan Sheikh allegedly led investigators to multiple hidden arms caches across the ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Veteran Trinamool MLA Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay on Saturday handed over a copy of the controversial resolution book to CID investigators as the agency intensified its probe into the Signgate case.The Ballygunge MLA said he himself called the CID to ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said the state govt has officially observed “Paschimbanga Divas” (West Bengal Day) for the first time, signalling a major shift in acknowledging the historical timeline that had led to the state’s creation.June 20 ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Saturday issued a show-cause notice to former minister Aroop Biswas over his June 12 letter to HDFC Bank that led to a freeze on three of the party’s bank accounts.The party is likely to move the ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Payloaders and cranes rolled into Rabindra Sarobar on Saturday morning, not to demolish illegal structures or remove encroachments, but to replant four large trees that had toppled during a thunderstorm about three weeks ago.The 88 kmph squall on ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three men and two women, all Trinamool Congress workers including a former councillor, were arrested in connection with the violent clash between supporters of the TMC and BJP outside Kolkata airport on Friday night that triggered panic among ...
21 June 2026 Times of IndiaTamaghna BanerjeeKolkata: Chaos broke out outside Kolkata airport on Friday night as supporters of Trinamool and BJP clashed near the arrival terminal, triggering panic among passengers and causing massive traffic snarls in the area.According to sources, a group of ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state plans to convert all bus stands in the city into solar-powered digital bus stands, install digital hoardings on three stretches in Kolkata, and impose fines for spitting and urinating in public.“We are introducing digital hoarding on ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: The Border Security Force (BSF) and its Bangladeshi counterpart, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), were locked in a standoff on Thursday after the BSF detained 20 alleged infiltrators and attempted to send them back across an unfenced stretch of ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Human Rights Commission has ordered an inquiry into a complaint filed by Association for Protection of Democratic Rights joint President Ranjit Sur over allegations that officers of Golabari, Sibpur and Sankrail police stations made accused ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt is targeting a record turnout of 10 lakh participants across yoga events in Kolkata on Sunday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to lead the International Day of Yoga programme on Red Road, even as ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Indian Museum has just inaugurated Mā Lipi: Virtues of Bhārat in Brāhmī, a unique exhibition that bridges India's ancient epigraphic heritage with contemporary artistic expression, highlighting the enduring relevance of ethical values that have shaped Indian civilisation ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On the International Day of Yoga, thousands of students at madrasas in Bengal will perform yoga — most of them for the first time in their lives. In the past three weeks, many of them have learnt intricate ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to lead the 12th International Day of Yoga celebrations on Red Road on June 21 along with chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, several gyms, yoga studios and fitness centres across Kolkata are gearing ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: No punitive or coercive action will be taken against govt employees who do not do yoga on International Day of Yoga; their participation is not mandatory, state govt told Calcutta High Court on Friday.The state coordination committee of ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: Incessant rain in Darjeeling district triggered landslides and flash floods on Friday, snapping a key road link between the hills and the plains, disrupting transport and connectivity. The heavy rain also resulted in the death of a four-year-old ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Torrential rain for a couple of hours in the morning—this monsoon’s first heavy spell—flooded large areas of Kolkata as well as Salt Lake and New Town on Friday. Consequently, traffic on multiple stretches, especially in central Kolkata, slowed ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal police on Friday started a probe into three accounts of Trinamool Congress at HDFC Bank under BNS sections related to organised crime, cheating and criminal conspiracy, as well as under the information technology act, following a complaint ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 46-year-old animal rights activist from Harisabha area in Behala has lodged a complaint of harassment, online defamation and physical stalking against a neighbour, who allegedly enjoys political clout. The neighbour, she said, did a Facebook Live, saying ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A late-night brawl inside a pub located near Highland Park took a violent turn in the early hours of Thursday, June 18, when a disgruntled group allegedly stormed the Survey Park Women’s Police Station, tried to stop the ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A lightning struck an Agartala-bound IndiGo aircraft, with 141 passengers and six crew members on board, moments before departure at the Kolkata airport on Friday morning. An immediate power outage and panic among flyers forced the airline to ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 75-year-old woman has lodged a police complaint against her tenant, alleging illegal occupation of her Garfa Main Road property for 21 years, criminal intimidation and abuse.Protima Bhowmik alleged that Gopal Gayen entered the premises in 2005 under ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Adjudicating nearly 60 lakh Special Intensive Revision (SIR) cases within a compressed timeline was a “herculean task” that Bengal’s judicial officers successfully completed, outgoing Chief Justice of Calcutta HC Sujoy Paul said during his farewell speech on Friday, ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In what could trigger a fresh fault line within Trinamool’s camp of rebel MPs, who recently aligned with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), differences have emerged over whether to embrace the obscure party’s symbol or seek ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State govt’s decision to implement various central schemes in Bengal is set to unlock around Rs 40,000 crore for development projects across the state, said official sources. Funds earmarked for multiple programmes during the previous Trinamool govt’s tenure ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty was appointed Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta HC on Friday with the retirement of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on Saturday.Justice Chakraborty currently serves as executive chairman of the State Legal Services Authority. He was also ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal assembly, which launched its YouTube channel on Thursday, has made public the record of its proceedings from June 20, 1947 — the day Bengal’s legislature voted on the province’s partition into West Bengal and East Pakistan.The ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A rape complaint has been filed against former MLA of Canning East, Saokat Molla, currently in NIA custody in the Bhangar bomb blast case. A housewife has lodged the written complaint at Jibantala police station against Saokat, his ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: A businessman was arrested after allegedly stepping in front of the convoy of chief minister Suvendu Adhikari in the VIP zone of Nabanna and attempting to record a video on his phone, police and local sources said on ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday questioned a former commissioner of Kolkata Police and two former deputy commissioners as as part of its probe, which has been reopened, into allegations of evidence destruction and attempts to ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaMidnapore: The suspension of three doctors of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital was revoked on Friday. Hospital superintendent (MSVP) Jayanta Kumar Routh, RMO Soumen Das, and assistant professor Dr Himadri Nayek — who were suspended after the death of ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former mayor and Kolkata Port MLA Firhad Hakim on Friday conducted a training and orientation session for a section of rebel Trinamool Congress MLAs aligned with MLA Ritabrata Banerjee.He focused on legislative procedures, the process of raising public ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his first public appearance in Bengal since the BJP formed the govt on May 9 when he visits Tarakeswar in Hooghly on Saturday, coinciding with Paschimbanga Diwas. During the visit, Modi will ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tollywood is locked in a debate following an open letter posted by Miami-based director Suman Ghosh on Friday. While Ghosh has levelled plagiarism charges against Prosenjit Chatterjee’s characterization in Indraadip Dasgupta’s ‘Abhhiman’ and not the film’s plot or ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With Jamai Sasthi on Sunday , a severe shortage of fish in Kolkata’s markets has cast a shadow over preparations for one of Bengal’s most cherished family festivals. While demand remains high, many of the most sought-after varieties ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after former state sports minister Aroop Biswas was forced to remain confined inside his lawyer’s chamber at Alipore court for nearly three hours amid chants of “thief, thief” and threats of an egg attack, the dramatic ...
20 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ITC chairman Sanjiv Puri called on CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday and discussed the conglomerate’s future investment plans. Officials said Puri apprised the CM about the company’s plans to invest in paper, hotels and solar power projects. The ...
19 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday told a Trinamool delegation that personal security officers (PSOs) assigned to former CM Mamata Banerjee would be decided by the security establishment and not on the basis of individual preference, according to sources.The ...
19 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata is likely to get hotter, more humid and wetter over the next two decades, with rising temperatures, warmer winter nights and more episodes of intense rainfall expected to make life increasingly difficult for residents, according to new ...
19 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An IndiGo aircraft scheduled to operate a flight from Kolkata to Agartala was struck by lightning while parked at Kolkata airport on Friday amid severe thunderstorm conditions, an Airports Authority of India (AAI) official said.The incident occurred while ...
19 June 2026 Times of IndiaFor decades, purists have warned of the impending "death of the book," predicting that screens would inevitably swallow the written word whole. Yet, as India celebrates National Reading Day on June 19—matching concurrent celebrations in the UK for its ...
19 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A police vehicle carrying TMC leader Vijay Singh alias Bhola Singh was allegedly pelted with eggs outside the Asansol court on Friday, with people in the crowd shouting “chor, chor” at him.Earlier on June 18, former West Bengal ...
19 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former Trinamool Congress MLA Saukat Molla has been booked on charges of rape and criminal intimidation after a woman filed a complaint at Jibantala police station in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on Friday.According to ...
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